Shepherd's Hollow Golf Club north of Detroit: A peaceful, but never easy, feeling
At Shepherd's Hollow Golf Club north of Detroit, the land dictates the golf. It seemed an easy decision but results in steeply elevated greens and tees and not many even lies. Few holes here offer easy pars, and thick forest lines most fairways to swallow stray drives. Shepherd's Hollow is the golf course to play when you can't make it to northern Michigan, writes Brandon Tucker, and it may rank as a better value and experience.
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Shepherd's Hollow Golf Club north of Detroit: A peaceful, but never easy, feeling
At Shepherd's Hollow Golf Club north of Detroit, the land dictates the golf. It seemed an easy decision but results in steeply elevated greens and tees and not many even lies. Few holes here offer easy pars, and thick forest lines most fairways to swallow stray drives. Shepherd's Hollow is the golf course to play when you can't make it to northern Michigan, writes Brandon Tucker, and it may rank as a better value and experience.
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Shepherd's Hollow Golf Club in Clarkston
Continually ranked as one of the best public golf courses in Michigan since 2000, Shepherd's Hollow Golf Club sits on 350 acres of rolling terrain that you'd be more likely to find in northern Michigan over southeast Detroit. Most holes tumble up and down, and there are a fair amount of elevated tees and greens.
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True North Golf Club in Harbor Springs among Michigan's best golf courses, reader says
Reader Gary Jordan writes: "True North Golf Club of Harbor Springs, Mich., is a fabulous course. The greens are amongst the best I have ever played, including anything in Arizona or Las Vegas."
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